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No. 17.

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Vol. LIII.

The Hongkong Government Gazette

Extraordinary.

Published by Authority.

SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1907.

The following Notifications are published,

By command,

A. M. THOMSON, Colonial Secretary.

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

No. 288.-It is hereby notified that, His Excellency Sir MATTHEW NATHAN, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, having left the Colony this day, the prescribed Oaths of Office were administered by His Honour the Chief Justice in the presence of the Executive Council to the Honourable Mr. FRANCIS HENRY MAY, Companion of the said Most Distinguished Order and Colonial Secretary of the Colony, and that Mr. MAY thereupon assumed the Administration of the Government in virtue of His Majesty's Commission given at the Court at St. James's on the fourteenth day of October, 1903.

A. G. M. FLETCHER, Clerk of Councils.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

20th April, 1907.